Geoff E. Tanner has been President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2023. Mr. Tanner joined Simply Good Foods as President, Chief Operating Officer and CEO-elect as well as a member of the Board of Simply Good Foods on April 3, 2023. Mr. Tanner has more than 20 years of experience driving financial and marketplace results for leading food companies. From October 2019 through February 2023, Mr. Tanner served as Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer of The J.M. Smucker Company (“Smucker”). In this position, Mr. Tanner oversaw the more than $8 billion JMS Commercial organization, leading a successful transformation of the company’s marketing and sales organizations, helping Smucker deliver successive years of growth in organic sales, profits and market share. Prior to that, at Smucker Mr. Tanner was Senior Vice President, Growth and Innovation from 2016 to 2019 and General Manager, Pet Snacks Business Unit and Vice President, Marketing from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Tanner brings significant expertise in strategy and business development, operations, brand building, innovation, omnichannel strategy and revenue management to his role at Simply Good Foods. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Tanner had executive roles at Big Heart Pet Brands and Del Monte Foods (the predecessor of Big Heart Pet Brands). Earlier in his career, Mr. Tanner was a senior strategy consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

Ryan Thomas joined Simply Good Foods as Senior Vice President, Atkins Marketing, in October 2023. Previously, Ryan was Chief Commercial Officer for the Pet Portfolio at Post Holdings, acquired from J.M. Smucker in April 2023.

At Smucker’s, he was Vice President of Marketing for their extensive Pet Portfolio and before that, led Innovation in Coffee, Spreads, Uncrustables and Pet. Ryan held various brand management and innovation roles at Big Heart Pet Brands, The Campbell Soup Company and H.J. Heinz, working on such brands as Milk-Bone, Meow Mix, Natural Balance, Campbells and V8.

He holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jason Bendure has served as Senior Vice President, Operations, for Simply Good Foods since September 2023. With over 20 years of experience in operations for food and beverage companies, Jason has been responsible for operations, including internal and external operations, quality, procurement, engineering, environmental, health and safety and project management offices on a global basis for multiple companies. Previously, he spent six years at KIND where he led operations for KIND’s Health and Wellness platform, a division of Mars, which is a portfolio of Brands including KIND Snacks, Nature’s Bakery, TruFru & Creative Snacks.

Prior to that, Jason served 18 years in PepsiCo, operating across Quaker Foods, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Naked Juice, Gatorade and Pepsi in operations, supply chain and manufacturing roles with increasing responsibility. Jason has a BS in Milling Science from Kansas State University and an MBA from the University of Iowa.